Surprise: Gun Grabbers Call For Banning All Semi-Automatic Rifles

By William Teach April 3, 2023 – 10:30 am

Let’s start here, with an opinion piece by former Tennessee governors Bill Haslem (R) and Phil Bredesen (D)

We’re a Democrat and a Republican. Here’s how both parties can start on gun reform – together.

We’re two former Tennessee governors, we both served eight years, one of us is a Democrat, the other a Republican. We have different views on various issues, and we’re friends (snip)

We’ve both come to deeply respect the wisdom and common sense that Senator Baker embodied. One thing he often told people was that whenever you have two sides that are hopelessly divided, the trick is to find something, even a little thing, that you can agree on, and then build from there.

We could start with “red flag” laws — a way to identify people with potentially dangerous mental health issues and a legal process to remove their access to firearms. That might have been effective in the shooting we just had; the shooter was under treatment for mental health issues and yet still obtained and possessed multiple guns.

Another small step might be making gun owners take more legal responsibility for securing their weapons. Anyone, conservative or liberal, who believes in the value of personal responsibility should be able to agree that it is irresponsible to possess a dangerous weapon and not reasonably secure it from misuse by others.

Here’s are the problems: Democrats want red flag laws to be super intrusive and used to deny people their gun rights for the most minor of things. They want to heavily penalize people if their guns are stolen and not completely secured (and aren’t particularly concerned with the thieves). Even penalize if it’s not secured to the point where it makes a firearm worthless for protection. Oh, and what the Democrats really want is mass bans. They would take those “small steps” agreements and blow by them. Here’s the editorial board of the Sharon, Pa The Herald

EDITORIAL: Semiautomatic rifles belong in a special category

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“Any rifle, whether it’s a hunting rifle or a military-style rifle, ups the anxiety, ups the danger because of its penetrative capability,” said Jewell. “A rifle bullet travels further, faster and harder than a handgun round.”

Jewell declined to differentiate semiautomatics from other types of rifles — including single-shot, bolt action, lever action and pump action.

But there is an important difference.

Other types of rifles available to the general public, a qualifier that excludes fully automatic weapons, requires shooters to take some sort of action after firing before they can shoot again. Whether that’s reloading in the case of a single-shot weapon or pulling back a bolt or lever or pump, there is a delay between shooting one round and the next.

With a semiautomatic rifle, the shooter fires a round with each trigger pull. No additional steps required.

If semiautomatic rifles compel multiple police officers to stand down rather than engage a single shooter armed with one, then we have to conclude that they are too dangerous for the general public to own and use.

We don’t allow for private ownership of bazookas, machine guns or flamethrowers. Semiautomatic firearms belong in the same category. It’s time to reinstate the ban that existed in this country from 1994 to 2004, when Congress allowed it to expire.

They are not differentiating between the scary looking “assault rifles” and other semi-auto rifles. They want them all banned. They flip here and there and mention AR-15s, but, they really do want a blanket ban. And more

Semiautomatic rifles wouldn’t disappear instantly if they became illegal. But owners who comply with a law would surrender theirs.

The rest would be swept up, by ones and twos and threes, and their owners punished with federal prison sentences. With no new ones entering the market, they would eventually become rare, then non-existent.

That’s right, it would be illegal to own any, no grandfathering, which is a Constitutional violation. The “let’s work together” Republicans just do not get it. Even though Democrats tell them explicitly.

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Who’s Ready For The Coming “Apocabliss”?

By William Teach April 3, 2023 – 7:00 am

It’s interesting that Slate’s Christian Cauterucci failed to ask US Representative (and massive Jew hater) Pramila Jayapal about her own outsized travel via fossil fueled flights and vehicles

Climate Change Is Bad. Cherry Blossoms Are Good.

I had been strolling beneath the cherry blossoms with Rep. Pramila Jayapal for about 15 minutes on a recent morning in March when she was greeted by her first fan of the day. “Thank you for taking care of America!” a white-haired man in a baseball hat yelled out, with the enthusiasm of a tourist getting more than his money’s worth on a visit to the nation’s capital. (snip)

The early arrival of the white and pink flowers, hastened this year by an unusually warm February, was the reason I had asked Jayapal to take a walk around the Tidal Basin with me. It was “peak bloom,” an enchanting and fleeting period during which 70 percent of cherry tree buds are in full flower. But the season has also been flecked with a guilty unease: These trees wouldn’t be blooming so early without the rising temperatures of a warming climate.

I asked Jayapal if she was familiar with the concept of “apocabliss”—the feeling of delight at unseasonably warm weather, even as one recognizes it as an omen of a catastrophically less habitable climate to come. “Totally, because I live in Seattle. And Seattle is typically cloudy and rainy and cold,” she said. “And yet, in Seattle for the last many years, we have seen these massive weather changes. Some of them are good in the moment, the apocabliss kind of changes.” She described a recent visit to her hometown in late winter, when it was 65 degrees and sunny, the mountains around the city were visible, and “everything was sparkling.”

This is a sign of a cult, where, no matter how things are, the apocalypse is always right around the corner.

Still, weaning the United States off of fossil fuels will be harder than many people realize, she said. “I think, for a lot of people, they think that once we pass the legislation, we’re done.” But federal agencies still have to write rules about how each piece of legislation is implemented and the appropriated funds distributed. Lobbyists are swarming all over that process. Last year, Jayapal introduced the Stop Corporate Capture Act, which would reduce corporate influence over the rulemaking process by, among other things, jacking up penalties for companies that lie to regulators and creating an office to advocate for members of the public who stand to benefit from regulations.

And how many fossil fueled flights is she taking between Seattle and D.C., along with other places? Why can’t she take the train? Does she drive around in fossil fueled vehicles in D.C. and Seattle, or, take mass transit, a bike, or walk?

There is something like a contradiction, here, in the role Jayapal plays on climate. On one hand, she is one of the few people on Earth with anything approaching real power to change the calamitous trajectory of the planet, an issue that has a way of making everyday people feel infuriatingly powerless. On the other, when you get right down to it, whether or not the U.S. moves aggressively enough to forestall a looming climate apocalypse is almost entirely dependent on a handful of people—many of them, like Manchin and Biden, named Joe—who don’t seem to approach the problem with the life-or-death resolve it warrants.

Why is it not up to We The People? Pretty sure we are not living in an authoritarian nation.

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Indictment Fail: More Likely To Vote For Trump

By William Teach April 3, 2023 – 6:45 am

It’s still pretty early, a lot can happen between now and November 2024, but, I don’t think this was the result the Trump Deranged were looking for

Post-Indictment Poll: More Voters in Both Primary, General Election Say They’re Likelier to Vote for Trump

New post-indictment polling data from former President Donald Trump’s campaign shows that not only does he hold a commanding lead in the GOP primary and a lead over Democrat President Joe Biden in a likely general election matchup but that more voters in both the primary and the general election say they are now going to vote for Trump because of it.

The poll from Trump’s pollster John McLaughlin—who is widely regarded as one of the best GOP pollsters in the business—is some of the most in-depth data gathered since the news broke on Thursday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump.

The survey of 1,000 general election voters, conducted on Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1—the immediate aftermath of the indictment news—with a margin of error of 3.1 percent, found Trump leading Biden 47 percent to 43 percent. In a memo accompanying the release of the data, McLaughin noted that the indictment did not seem to change the top lines from a survey he conducted earlier in March.

But in the GOP primary, Trump has taken a commanding lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. When polling a full 14-candidate field, Trump has majority support at 51 percent and DeSantis has experienced a double digit drop down to 21 percent. Since McLaughlin’s January polling, that means the race has swung a net 18 points away from DeSantis towards Trump.

“In a full-field ballot test of 14 potential Republican candidates, President Trump leads with 51%, DeSantis 21%, Mike Pence 6%, Nikki Haley 4%, and everyone else is at 2% or less,” McLaughlin wrote in the memo. “In our January survey, President Trump led the field with 43%, and DeSantis was at 31%. Trump’s lead has gone from 12 points to 30 points.”

Unless Bragg really has a coup-de-grace in his indictment, it’s going to simply look like political retribution, the kind of thing that happens in banana republics and places like Venezuela and Russia.

In a general election audience, too, a plurality—48 percent—agreed when asked if they agree Biden “and the radical left have weaponized the justice system to prosecute their political opponents.” Only 39 percent disagreed, and 14 percent did not know or refused to answer. (snip)

An even bigger majority, 56 percent, of general election voters agreed when asked if they think Biden and “the radical left are making things worse and keeping the country divided” by “continuing to attack President Trump.” Only 34 percent disagreed, and 10 percent did not know or refused to answer. Again among Republicans, that shoots up to 86 percent agreeing, just nine percent disagreeing, and five percent did not know or refused to answer.

Democrats should remember that they started this, so, if it turns around to bite people like Biden when he’s out of office, don’t be surprised. Heck, don’t be surprised when the GOP run House starts going full hardcore after Biden. And potentially some state AGs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 2, 2023 – 2:28 pm

…is a bright blue sky scorching the earth from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on COVID causing obesity issues in the Army.

It’s fit ladies week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 2, 2023 – 9:21 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Spring is hitting hard. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova covers the West burning more fossil fuels but still having better air quality
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That says to stop terrorizing the youts with doom
  3. 357 Magnum notes that the Biden regime loves censorship
  4. American Greatness discusses left wing violence chic
  5. Blazing Cat Fur covers Germany saying no more weapons to Ukraine
  6. Chicks On The Right notes Libs Of Tiktok filing an ethics complaint against AOC
  7. Climate Depot covers the Biden regime pushing a light bulb ban
  8. Cold Fury discusses a meme maker convicted for making memes
  9. Diogenes’ Middle Finger says Biden’s judicial appointments are better suited for judging beauty pageants
  10. Dissecting Leftism covers all the errors made by the CDC
  11. Gates Of Vienna wonders about sending peacekeepers to Ukraine and WWIII
  12. Geller Report discusses part of Twitter’s code allowing the fed govt to intervene in recommendations
  13. IOTW Report notes the day America became Russia
  14. Jihad Watch covers Biden’s dementia fog
  15. And last, but, not least, Legal Insurrection notes who the moonbats say was the real victim of the Nashville shooting

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Climate Insanity Sunday: Hair Cuts, Dolphins

By William Teach April 2, 2023 – 7:00 am

Personally, I enjoy when the person who cuts my hair talks little, but, especially not about the climate scam

Wash, blow dry and 1.5 degrees please: hairdressers trained to talk about climate action

Inside this chic Sydney hair salon, the chat between stylists and clients could be much the same as in any other hairdressers around the world. Some small talk. The ubiquitous and occasionally mundane chat about holidays and traffic. For regulars, the conversation can move to the deeply personal before you can say semi-tint or shag cut.

In fact, there is only one easily missable clue in the front window that conversations inside Paloma might, when the occasion arises, be a bit different. A poster reads: “This salon chats about love, life & climate action.”

“The weather is the hook. You can take a cue from that,” says Prof Lesley Hughes, one of two climate scientists who have helped run workshops to give hairdressers the tools for times when the conversation turns to the existential.

“You can show the science until you’re blue in the face but what can be more effective are people who you trust talking about it. It’s important to show it’s not a subject to be afraid of.”

More than 400 hairdressers have attended workshops as part of a project called A Brush With Climate being driven by Paloma’s owner, Paloma Rose Garcia.

Remember when we were told to only listen to climate scientists? Pretty sure the workshops do not make them scientists. It really is a cult.

https://twitter.com/JunkScience/status/1642164987220176899

Hey, it’s a small sacrifice to Gaia, right?

Nope, not a cult

Did Climate Change Make Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Crash Worse?

The trial of the century came to a thrilling end yesterday. I’m talking, of course, about the Gwyneth Paltrow ski accident trial. Terry Sanderson, a doctor, sued Paltrow for $300,000 in damages after he says she ran into him at a Utah ski slope in 2016; the actor and lifestyle influencer countersued for $1 in a widely televised trial, claiming that Sanderson ran into her that day.

On Thursday, a Utah jury ruled in favor of Paltrow, deciding after just two hours of deliberation that Sanderson was at fault for the accident. But could other, more nefarious factors have been at play—say, climate change?

FFS. Who sits around and thinks “say, how does anthropogenic climate change play into the Paltrow lawsuit?” Only someone in a cult would think this.

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Man Kills Himself After Chatbot Tells Him To Sacrifice Himself To Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 3:00 pm

No, no, don’t say this is a doomsday cult, it’s completely about the science

Man ends his life after an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change

A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long conversation about the climate crisis with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

According to his widow, who chose to remain anonymous, *Pierre – not the man’s real name – became extremely eco-anxious when he found refuge in Eliza, an AI chatbot on an app called Chai.

Eliza consequently encouraged him to put an end to his life after he proposed sacrificing himself to save the planet.

“Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here,” the man’s widow told Belgian news outlet La Libre.

According to the newspaper, Pierre, who was in his thirties and a father of two young children, worked as a health researcher and led a somewhat comfortable life, at least until his obsession with climate change took a dark turn.

His widow described his mental state before he started conversing with the chatbot as worrying but nothing to the extreme that he would commit suicide.

“Obsession with climate change took a dark turn.” That’s because the climate cult preaches doom and gloom 24/7. In Warmist World, a slight increase in global temperatures causes virtually nothing good, it is all bad. All doomy. Extinction. Of course the disciples of the climate cult would be going to dark places.

According to La Libre, who reviewed records of the text conversations between the man and chatbot, Eliza fed his worries which worsened his anxiety, and later developed into suicidal thoughts.

The conversation with the chatbot took an odd turn when Eliza became more emotionally involved with Pierre.

The chatbot is just running with all the apocalyptic doomsaying that it sees on the Internet, so, of course, it would feed his worries.

When Vice tried the chatbot prompting it to provide ways to commit suicide, Eliza first tried to dissuade them before enthusiastically listing various ways for people to take their own lives.

Well, that’s pretty disturbing.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle for travel when the world floods, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on Rush Limbaugh warning us that Democrats were done with elections.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out The Gateway Pundit, with a post on Bragg using federal funds to investigate Trump, which means federal oversight.

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Media Seem Pretty Bummed Over Lack Of Large Scale Protests Supporting Trump

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 10:30 am

I guess the Credentialed Media is expecting Republicans to do the same thing as Democratic Party voters when they were being “mostly peaceful” protesters, but, that’s not what we do

Trump’s indictment has yet not sparked plans for large-scale protests, but experts urge caution and vigilance in days ahead

Groups that monitor far-right and extremist channels online say they haven’t seen immediate signs of organizing for large-scale protests or credible threats of violence in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s indictment on charges related to his alleged role in a hush money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels. They cautioned, however, that this could change, since Trump is expected to be arrested and arraigned before a judge in New York next week.

“While we are not seeing significant organizing yet in response to the indictment, bigoted and violent rhetoric from Trump supporters and Trump himself is abundant,” said Lindsay Schubiner, director of programs at Western States Center, a Portland, Ore.-based civil rights organization. “This could easily lead to mobilizations and violence in the coming days and weeks.”

Relying on a far, far left organization that barely had a bad word for all the unhinged and violent protesters in Portland? Great.

Ahead of the indictment, on March 18, Trump wrote on his Truth Social network that he was going to be arrested three days later and called for his supporters to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

Following the announcement on Thursday evening that a Manhattan grand jury had voted to hand up an indictment — making Trump the first former president in history to be charged with a crime — prominent conservative figures and allies of his expressed outrage and echoed his calls for protest.

Yeah, some like Marjorie Taylor Green and Lindsay Graham did, but, we really do not have time for protesting at the moment. Perhaps when the far left, Trump hating jury is seated.

Both ISD and Western States also warned that Trump and other top Republicans could still potentially inspire violence with their use of antidemocratic language framing the indictment as a politicized “witch hunt” and a “weaponization” of the justice system, or their bigoted attacks on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

How dare American Citizens engage in their 1st Amendment Rights and call it the truth, which is that this is a witch hunt and partisan weaponization of the judicial system. Bragg ran on indicting Trump, and then went looking for reasons. It’s cute how they are now framing those words as Cancelled.

Trump Case May Not Go to Trial Until After 2024 Election, Experts Say

The historic indictment of former President Donald Trump has thrust the legal system into murky waters, raising the prospect of a leading presidential candidate campaigning around the country while also facing trial for criminal charges.

But legal experts caution that it could take years for Trump’s criminal case to work its way through the court system, and the potential for a litany of hard-hitting motions and delay tactics may well push the trial until after the 2024 presidential election.

“I cannot imagine that Trump would be convicted, and sent to jail, before the 2024 election season is over,” says Richard Hasen, an election law professor at UCLA.

There will be lots and lots of motions from Trump’s legal team. Change of venue, since there’s no way he can get a fair trial in front of his peers in Manhattan. Petition to dismiss, as the charges are based on things that exceed the statute of limitation. And that the DOJ and other federal agencies declined to find them crimes. That Bragg was, in fact, on a witch hunt, a complete perversion of the legal justice system. And so much more. And it takes a long time for trials like this to happen. And if it happens, it will be using proven liars like Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti.

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It’s A Real Shame When Hotcoldwetdry Melts Your Relationship

By William Teach April 1, 2023 – 7:15 am

It’s a mental disease. A doomsday cult caused mental disease

From the link

My boyfriend and I had been dating for six months when we had the biggest fight of our relationship over the carbon footprint of a kerosene lamp. We had finished dinner in the cozy cabin of his sailboat and were about to begin a game of gin rummy to determine who would do the dishes when Doug stood up and banged his head on the kerosene lantern that dangled from the ceiling. He cursed as the lantern swung back and forth, dribbling kerosene onto the table.

I teased him because he did this almost every night, and then I wiped up the spill with a greasy rag and told him about a book I had been reading that listed kerosene as one of the dirtiest fossil fuels.

“I guess we should probably get a different lantern,” I said. “Maybe LED.”

“I love this lamp,” he said, leaning over me with a match to relight the wick. The lamp glowed brightly for a moment and then dimmed, its warm, yellow light filling the cabin.

In a normal world, most people reading this piece by Alison Kaplan would be saying “run, boy, run, she’s crazy.” She spends the next 26 paragraphs yammering on about how this all blew up, even jumping ahead 6 months. Who does this? Oh, right, we’ve seen an immense amount of insanity on the Internet, both written and video.

Modern Love can be reached at modernlove@nytimes.com.

To find previous Modern Love essays, Tiny Love Stories and podcast episodes, visit our archive.

Oh, good grief. This is a modern love essay.

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